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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.</td>
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